Jackson Pendleton Dunagan, Sr.

The photo above is Jackson Pendleton Dunagan, Sr., taken around 1910 in High Springs, FL. He was a son of William Abner Dunagan who moved his family from the hills of North Georgia (Hall County) to High Springs, FL, in 1892. William Abner Dunagan was the son of Ezekiel Jackson Dunagan and Lucinda Thompson, grandson of Ezekiel Dunagan and Lydia Ann Brown who settled the wilderness of North Georgia around 1790, building one of the early settlements in Georgia when the native American Indians were not all that welcoming to new settlers, especially the Creek Indians. These early Dunagans lived and traded among the Eastern Cherokee people and got along quite well.

William Abner Dunagan's wife was Anna Murphreesborough Gaines and her uncle was General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. When he returned to the Hall County area after having been south into North Florida fighting the Indian wars, he reported how beautiful the area was especially out by the Santa Fe River and springs. So in 1892, William Abner & his family decided to relocate there since he had the skills of installing and operating grist mills and saw mills. They were very successful for many years.

William Abner Dunagan and Anna M. Gaines had the following children:

Montine M Dunagan

Jackson Pendleton Dunagan

Erasmus Dunagan

Emily Lucinda Dunagan

Albina Dunagan

Nettie L Dunagan

Ruby Dunagan

Mamie M Dunagan

Oscar Leon Dunagan

Jackson Pendleton Dunagan, Sr.(1883-1963), in the photo above, with wife Aline R. Dunagan had a son named Jackson Pendleton Dunagan, Jr.(1916-1996) who married Grace N. Walker(1919-2002)